With their striking colours, bold brush strokes and leftfield nod to history, these extraordinary portraits of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have certainly got tongues wagging.

They are the work of artist Dan Llywelyn Hall, who has re-imagined Harry as Charles Edward Stuart 

– better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie – and Meghan as Queen of England Dame Elizabeth Grey, who was married to King Edward in 1464.

Harry’s piece is named Spectre Of The Bonny Prince, while Meghan’s is called Returning White Queen.

Llywelyn Hall, the youngest ever to paint a portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth, said: “In Harry’s case, I have entered the story before he met Meghan the young partygoer 

with his future very much in the balance, a bit like the Bonnie Prince I have likened him to. 

I thought putting Meghan in the role of the White Queen, who was a Queen Consort and possibly the most influential ‘outsider’ in Royal history, might have a fine irony to it and not necessarily beyond the realms of reality.”

At just 32, Hall was commissioned by the Welsh Rugby Union in 2012 to create a portrait of the Queen, for which she sat at Windsor Castle. Since then, his Royal portfolio has expanded to include a portrait celebrating Prince William’s journey into fatherhood, a live painting of the state funeral of the late Queen, and the coronation procession of Prince Charles.

‘Think the artist stole his three-year-old’s colouring book’

Mirror readers have already been quick to comment on the paintings.

Carrycot4: “It’s so funny! It’s so bad It’s almost good. My husband could do better and his artistic talent is zero! It reminds me of those pictures you used to see by elephants with a brush in their trunks. Hilarious!”

Eriq: “Looks like a six-year-old painted them with their fingers.”

810hugs: “Oh dear, what is it with artists painting royals in a terrible way recently? First Charles and Kate’s, now these two appalling monstrosities. Is there a secret artists’ revolt going on?”

Ghostwriter: “I have a six-year-old whose drawings are better than these ‘portraits’, and are on display at the fridge gallery free of charge for anyone visiting our house to view.”

Jerrymyer: “Think the artist stole his three-year-old’s colouring book …”

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Source: USA Today